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Defense Has a Health Care Spending Problem
On Thursday, the White House previewed its plans to shrink defense spending, announcing its intention to reduce the size of the army and scale back counterinsurgency operations. “Our military will be leaner,” Obama told officials on a visit to the Pentagon Thursday.
Obama Announces Pentagon Budget Cuts
President Obama announced a new military strategy on Thursday that will cut the Pentagon budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade /.../
U.S. Turns to Drones to Counter China
A recent offer by the Seychelles to refuel and replenish Chinese naval ships on anti-piracy patrols in the northwest Indian Ocean was seen as the latest sign of China's expanding naval power. But it obscured an even more significant development: U.S. deployment of a mini-air force of long-range, remotely-piloted aircraft from a network of airfields in the Seychelles, the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to track and if necessary attack suspected terrorists on land and pirates at sea/.../
Obama Puts His Stamp on Strategy for a Leaner Military
President Obama has for the first time put his own stamp on an all-encompassing American military policy by turning from the grinding ground wars that he inherited from the Bush administration and refocusing on what he described as a smaller, more agile force across Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East /.../
Critics Question Pentagon’s New Strategy
For two decades, the Pentagon has maintained that it could fight two wars at the same time. But as the Obama administration releases its new military strategy Thursday, some question whether the Pentagon will abandon that long-held commitment/.../
Iranian Sabre-Rattling Won’t Spark Arms Race, Analysts Say
American allies in the the Middle East won't be rushing to flood their arsenals with U.S. military hardware as a result of Iran's recent aggressiveness in the region, according to defense experts.